Posts Tagged ‘Toronto’
Monday, May 17th, 2010
MICHAEL'S RAW REVIEW - EPISODE 2
MAY 17, 2010
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
- Tonight's RAW is commercial free. Should be a little more entertaining to watch with matches going a little longer. I know I will appreciate that. As for Sacrifice, looks like a bunch of unanswered questions for Thursday night. Why advertise Sting vs. Jarrett, build it up, waste time on TV, and then can't deliver when you know Sting has been injured for a month??!?!? Blackhawks 1, Sharks 0. I love it. Cue the opening video.
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Tags: Attitude, Back to the Future, Batista, Bret Hart, Canada, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, DVD, Edge, I Quit, John Cena, Michael Bradley, Michael Cole, Miz, Monday Night RAW, NWA, NXT, Randy Orton, RAW, Sacrifice, Santino Marella, Saturday Night's Main Event, Sting, TNA, Toronto, TV, Undertaker, Vader, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
MICHAEL'S RAW REVIEW
MAY 10, 2010
PITTSBURGH, PA - THE MELON ARENA
- Well, since there is no Impact tonight, I figured I would do a RAW for fun. Real quick though, how could I not predict what would happen to Chicago last night any better. It was almost like 2009 all over again. I still stand by my prediction: Blackhawks in 6 games. Sorry, Scott, don't take it personal.
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Tags: Batista, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Edge, I Quit, Impact, John Cena, Locke, Michael Cole, Miz, Monday Night RAW, NXT, Randy Orton, RAW, Santino Marella, Smackdown, Toronto, TV, WWE
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Here’s a really long and good article from reader, all about getting your push killed through no fault of your own.
Hey Scott, Bill Chase from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada here. Been a fan since I was 4, I'm now 27. Here's something I put together recently, I hope you enjoy.
Lugered, def:
(1) An invented wrestling term, where someone is hyped up so big for a major title win, and then it doesen't happen derailing momentum to epic amounts of failure.
(2) Derived from wrestler, Lex Luger.
(3) Triple H has "Lugered" more people than anyone.
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Tags: 1994, 2000, Batista, Booker T, Bret Hart, Canada, Chris Jericho, ECW, Edge, Elimination Chamber, Goldberg, HHH, Hulk Hogan, JBL, John Cena, Lex Luger, Lost, Macho Man, Matt Hardy, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, NWA, NWO, Politics, Randy Orton, RAW, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Rob Van Dam, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shane McMahon, Shawn Michaels, Smackdown, Starrcade, Steve Austin, Sting, Terry Funk, The Rock, TNA, Toronto, TV, Undertaker, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
Posted in Rants | 115 Comments »
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
The SmarK Rant for UFC 111: Georges St. Pierre v. Dan Hardy
- Live from New Jersey.
- Your hosts are Mike Goldberg & Joe Rogan.
- I didn't have my laptop and was watching with a group, so I'm gonna have to do this mostly from memory.
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Tags: Edge, Goldberg, MMA, Sting, Toronto, UFC
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
The SmarK DVD Rant for Jake Roberts: Pick Your Poison
- This was one that I skipped when it came out because it didn't really appeal to me for $25. But for $6, hey, why not?
We start with a poem, written by Jake Roberts, so I'm already getting a bad feeling going into this.
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Tags: Bret Hart, Duke Doherty, DVD, ECW, Edge, Greg Valentine, HHH, House, Hulk Hogan, Jake Roberts, Locke, Mid-Atlantic, MSG, NWA, Philly, Randy Orton, Randy Savage, Raven, RAW, Ricky Steamboat, Saturday Night's Main Event, SNME, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, Toronto, TV, Ultimate Warrior, Undertaker, WCW, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania III, WWE, WWF
Posted in Rants | 40 Comments »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Sadly no one's going to read this for the HHH-Jericho match and I'm wondering why I even bothered to do it.
Luckily everyone will read for the Rock-Hogan showdown and with that I say enjoy!
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Tags: 2000, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, HHH, House, Hulk Hogan, Royal Rumble, The Rock, The Score, Toronto, Wrestlemania, WWF
Posted in Rants | 80 Comments »
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Hey man, I had to pass along this match that was aired on WWE 24/7 this month from a Toronto house show. Randy Savage defending his IC title in a No-DQ match vs. Tito Santana. It may be one of the best matches I've ever seen....and I love how crazy the Toronto crowd gets.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc3hts_tito-santana-vs-randy-savage-no-dq_sport
I wouldn’t call it one of the best I’ve ever seen, but it’s definitely on the high end of the Savage-Santana series, about ****1/4. But yeah, you just don’t get crazy crowds like that anymore. I loved them demolishing the ringside area, too.
Tags: 24, 24/7, House, Randy Savage, Tito Santana, Toronto, WWE
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Hmmm, what to say about this one. One of those times when a one-match card works to perfection. This actually starts a mini-run of really good closing matches at Wrestlemania, especially if you think Hogan-Savage is better than I do.
I posted this a little early because I have a couple classes to teach this morning and I won't be in front of a computer until later this afternoon. Discuss freely.
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Tags: Gorilla Monsoon, Hulk Hogan, Toronto, Ultimate Warrior, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWF, YouTube
Posted in Rants | 53 Comments »
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
You knew I would eventually get to the most electrifying man in sports entertainment. The Rock reign in the WWF/E has to be broken down in eras because he was constantly evolving as a character and working his way through the ranks.
Today I focused in on the matches that really started his change and eventual ascention. We skipped the early early stuff and start with the end of his first I-C reign as his gimmick was quickly wearing on the fans.
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Tags: Hart Foundation, HHH, RAW, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, Toronto, Undertaker, WWE, WWF
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
(Apparently this Bret Hart guy is all the rage right now among the kids, so here’s a repost of the DVD rant from 2004, with some formatting and spelling errors fixed)
The SmarK DVD Rant for Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be.
So here's how this is gonna work -- I've of course been hit by endless requests for this DVD, but didn't get the DVD until recently. I managed to watch the documentary portion previously and posted thoughts to the blog, but everyone wanted rants for the matches included, too, and I didn't really feel like going back to take notes on the documentary portion to do the entire DVD set. So the documentary portion is going to be a guest rant by longtime blog contributor and friend of mine Princess, who covered most of what I would have written about it anyway, and then we'll hit the matches with fresh rants for stuff I haven't done before or haven't done in a long time. For time reasons and for reasons of efficiency, I copied stuff where my opinions haven't changed or where an updated version wasn't going to be different enough to warrant a redo.
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Tags: 1994, 24, Andre the Giant, Attitude, Bob Backlund, Boston Garden, Bret Hart, British Bulldogs, Canada, Dusty Rhodes, DVD, ECW, Edge, Goldberg, Hart Foundation, HHH, House, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Lita, Locke, Lost, Midnight Express, Montreal, Mr. Perfect, MSG, Politics, Rants, RAW, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Royal Rumble, Slick, SNME, Starrcade, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, The Wrestler, Toronto, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, Vince Russo, WCW, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania III, WWE, WWF
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